What if the Giants were offered that trade for Odell Beckham?

If an NFL team offered the Giants a third- and fifth-round pick for Odell Beckham Jr., Dave Gettleman would hang up the phone faster than you could say “hog molly.”

Antonio Brown may be one of the best receivers in the game. But the Steelers’ minimal return in Sunday’s early trade of Brown to the Oakland Raiders in no way sets a market for Beckham’s price in any hypothetical trade off Big Blue.

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Of course, Gettleman has proven several times that he will pick up the phone and listen to offers for Beckham. And there is still a chance he trades him, given Beckham’s publicized frustration with Eli Manning and the Giants’ constant losing; the organization’s fatigue of his act; and OBJ’s presence as the Giants’ greatest commodity to bring back premium assets.

However, do not make the mistake of equating Beckham’s and Brown’s situations and behaviors, or of thinking the Giants are obligated to take an “A.B. discount” on a Beckham deal.

An NFL team doesn’t even get in the room with the Giants without talking a first-round pick (or picks), plus other assets. The circumstances surrounding Beckham and Brown are dramatically different.

Brown, 30, had demanded a trade, trashed the franchise and quarterback for their hypocrisy, and wasn’t going to play another down in black and yellow. He even went as far as saying he didn’t need football. He created leverage to force the Steelers’ hands while simultaneously damaging the trade value Pittsburgh could acquire in return with his significant public demands.

And that is why Pittsburgh ate a $21.2 million dead cap hit in 2019, and accepted just a third- and fifth-rounder, to trade one of the best playmakers in the entire NFL.

In the process, Brown received the raise and additional guaranteed money he wanted. And he leapfrogged Beckham’s new contract ($18 million per year) to once again become the highest-paid receiver at $19.8 million per year.

Beckham, 26, by comparison, is not making public trade demands and is doing nothing to impact his value negatively, whether he stays with the Giants or not. Like Brown, he is also a game-breaking, No. 1 wide receiver — one of the best in the game.

He signed a five-year, $90 million contract extension with Gettleman and the Giants just last August. And Beckham and the Giants did that because they both wanted to win together and put trust in each other to help the other do so.

Beckham has missed 16 of 32 games the last two seasons due to injury, but he is much younger than Brown and an equally hard worker.

If Gettleman is building a team capable of winning games this season, keeping Beckham on the field makes their offense and team better, no question about it.

The 2018 season, however, quickly spiraled out of control as Manning and Gettleman’s poor initial version of a reformed offensive line wrecked the Giants’ chances.

And in Week 5, Beckham’s ESPN interview dropped, as he questioned teammates’ heart, lamented Manning’s shortcomings and questioned his own happiness in New York while saying “I love being in L.A.”

Beckham did his best to help dig the Giants out of an early hole anyway, and did his best to play by Pat Shurmur’s rules. But he couldn’t turn the season around by himself. And his main similarity to Brown is that Beckham is no longer going to sit back and watch while the situation around him deteriorates or isn’t in his best interest.

If Gettleman now has buyer’s remorse, and he is willing to eat a $16 million dead cap hit in 2019, and Shurmur’s patience has run out, then Beckham could be traded this spring, just as Brown was midnight Sunday.

Just don’t think Brown’s minimal trade return reflects on Beckham at all. He’s worth a lot to the Giants. He’s been a far better employee recently.